J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Venice, Austria and Southern Germany ... > Trieste, Graz and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Mountains 1840
D30009
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 4a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘atman’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this loose ‘carriage sketch’ of mountains could have been made on the north-eastward journey anywhere between Trieste and Vienna (see respectively under folios 57 recto and 40 recto; D30109, D30076). The prominent but effectively illegible word above it is likely a place name.
Technical notes:
There is staining towards the top left and right from the leather pencil loops secured under the front paste-down (D41222).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Mountains 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mountains-r1196859, accessed 23 April 2024.